Gardening Tips

Learn more about gardening with our Gardening Tips.

Gift suggestions for gardeners

Thirty-eight gifts for your gardener friends and family

Oregonians have many choices for Christmas trees

Many Oregonians seem to prefer a tree more open than the typical sheared Douglas fir produced for shipment out of state.

How to keep your Christmas tree fresh

Christmas tree specialists bust the myths about how to take care of your cut Christmas tree

Make holiday decorations from plants in your garden

Intertwined organic materials such as grapevines, evergreen boughs and berries make natural-looking wreaths, swags, garlands and centerpieces.

Shred autumn leaves for compost piles and garden beds

Fallen leaves will break down much more quickly if you chop them into tinier pieces.

How to successfully replant riparian areas

Riparian areas that are damaged can be replanted. Six manageable steps are detailed in a comprehensive OSU guide.

Purple-leaf grape vine is an alternative to invasives

Purple leaf grape is a deep reddish purple. Its ornamental features and use as a climber or groundcover, make up for the lack of fruit flavor.

'Growing Farms' planning book is available to public

People can use the book to process information, record their ideas and work through whole-farm planning.

Build a compost worm bin to enrich soil and recycle waste

A new 13-page booklet from OSU Extension tells how to do worm composting in a process called vermicomposting.

Wild strawberry plants can cover a lot of ground

Here's a groundcover that is native to Oregon and doesn't require much water.

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